There’s one man responsible for creating a short fiction anthology that propelled so many authors into the Amazon Top #100 author rankings, no small feat at all. He did it by telling stories that no other publisher would dare touch. Short fiction is an incredibly tough market, with most not selling at all in today’s […]
A Mailing List + Crowd Sourcing A Book Title
I’m getting hip and with it in this modern internet age with a mailing list, as I realized I’ve skipped that valuable marketing step. I won’t post to it except for new releases and perhaps a couple of times to push for Dragon Award nominations, so it will be low additional email quotient for you. […]
#PulpRevolution Mindset
This might be total confirmation bias speaking, and I mean this to spur discussion rather than ramble about it too much. I see a very different style of posting from the Appendix N, Pulp Revolution, Science Fiction Should Be Fun crowd than the Literary SF group. The Pulp group makes fun, talks about stuff they love. […]
On Gatekeepers
I had a totally different blog for this morning planned, but Dragon Award Winning Author Nick Cole got me thinking, as he often does (and on a totally off topic note, I’d appreciate if you’d nominate Star Realms: Rescue Run for Best Military Science Fiction and Fantasy for this year’s Dragons). This is mostly aimed at […]
Perennial Baycon Guest Gets Nasty
Despite Baycon’s misleading form letter about their long time guests, there many who are a part of the con year after year, none who could remotely be on the right side of the aisle, and most of whom don’t really have any product out on the market that’s relevant in the current year. But, they’ll keep […]
2/11/17 Star Realms Signing, Demo, Tournament: Game Kastle, Fremont CA
I’ll be doing a book signing, demo of the game and running a tournament for anyone who wants to come down tomorrow, Saturday the 11th at Game Kastle in Fremont, CA. Address is: 3911 Washington Blvd in Fremont and their store phone is 510-651-4263. https://www.facebook.com/GameKastleFremont/ Will start at 12:00 PM Noon for demos and book signings […]
The Art Of The Troll
There’s a LOT of posting going on now, messages, comments, fake amazon reviews, trying to troll me. I expected this backlash fully. What I did not expect… that these people don’t know how to troll effectively. There are some efforts going on that I don’t want to dissuade because I find it awesome, as it […]
Fake Furry News!
Shocking. Truly shocking. On the heels of the robust Alt-Furry community gaining prominence through an article telling their side of the story, or at least a mostly unbiased one, Vice magazine has upped the ante, gaslighting and making it clear that– what should I dub them– normie-Furries should do their duty and attack them, similar […]
Sure, I’m Making It Up
Those of you who have been following me on facebook, gab and here, might have seen how I did a little investigative journalism last week about UC Berkeley and Milo, and how they gave a response citing there were “no reported injuries” in their attempt to damage control and suppress media interest in the terrible […]
Are You Tired of Winning?
I’m still not tired. Working hard on editing my Steampunk book right now, but I’m gonna take a break to show you this image: Yes, that is my book, and yes, it is currently selling better on Amazon in Space Opera than BayCon’s Guest of Honor, who has a TV show that just came back […]
Hi There!
Yes, imagine me saying “Hi There!” in that voice. I’m Jon Del Arroz! You might have heard of me from such blogs as: Superversive SF, Nick Cole, Declan Finn, or Vox Day. You may have also heard of me from such blogs as Mary Robinette Kowal and Jennifer Brozek.
Si vis pacem, para bellum!
Thank you everyone for such a warm response yesterday. I appreciate all the love and support more than you know. Feel free to keep in touch too as I’ll have your back in these situations as well as best as I am able. I’ll try to get out 2 posts today: one on responses to my […]
